BCG Daily Thursday 29th October 2015

Detectorists teaches everything about male friendship

BBC sitcom Detectorists draws the most accurate portrait of men being men that you'll find in current popular culture.

Evolution of TV for British Asians according to Mr Khan

The issue of immigration is rarely out of the headlines and it was no different fifty years ago, when thousands of Indians and Pakistanis came to Britain.

In response, the BBC launched its Immigration Programme Unit designed to help newcomers cope with everyday situations.

Adil Ray, star and creator of the sitcom Citizen Khan, looks at how those early shows developed into programmes that reflect the lives of British Asians today.

Rewind: "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" revisited

A decade after it originally aired, we take a look back at Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Channel 4's spoof of bad 80's horror television.

Bill Bailey review

Bill Bailey brought his Limboland tour to St David's Hall in Cardiff where we enjoyed some time inside the surreal mind of one of the UK's best loved comedians.

Mackenzie Crook: what's in Detectorists series 2

Mackenzie Crook spills the beans about the new series - and promises that Simon and Garfunkel will be back.

Daniel Sloss on the tampon tax

As Sloss says in his show, "As a man I can walk into an SDI clinic and get condoms for free on the off chance that I'm going to make a mess...yet women have to pay for something to control something that is absolutely definitely going to happen..."

Review, Patrick Kielty: Help - The Lowry, Salford

In his come-back stand up tour Patrick Kielty is asking us all for help. And his problem is, he's happy. He's a newlywed with the woman he met as a friend 10 years ago, with a baby on the way - it's all fallen into place. But he's worried "it'll all go tits up". And that's where he needs the audience's help.

Fans charged fee for cancelled Vic & Bob shows

Ticketing agency See Tickets has angered Reeves and Mortimer fans by charging a £3 transaction fee on tickets for shows that the comedy duo has had to cancel.

Detectorists - Series 2 review

Although Detectorists can make you laugh, it's always in an understated way, almost as if '...' is a punchline.

Mackenzie Crook interview

Why did Mackenzie Crook turn down Pirates of the Caribbean to make a BBC Four comedy?

Sara Pascoe 'Museum of Robot Pussycats' review

The show, entitled "The Museum of Robot Pussycats" was bizarrely hilarious - although at points, it was a little bit too strange for the conservative audience.

Detectorists: series 2 preview

Have they got a bit more budget for the second series of Detectorists? The opening episode starts with a historical battle... a big set piece that only serves to emphasise contrast between the drama of the past and the mundanity of the enthusiasts trying to connect with it, though the smallest of items.

Jimmy Carr's greatest hits tour: genius or con?

The stand-up's 2016-7 mega-tour will include his best jokes from the past 15 years.

Detectorists series two is the same but different...

Some things should stay the same. In the same way that what lies in Bishop's Field should stay in Bishop's Field...

Vic vows Bob "will return bigger, faster, stronger"

The 56-year-old Shooting Stars comic was due to start touring with partner Vic Reeves next month to mark their 25th anniversary as a double act.

Detectorists, TV review

A welcome return for the sitcom that makes Last of the Summer Wine look like Spectre.

James Corden embarrasses Jack Whitehall on US TV

James Corden recently welcomed his A League of Their Own co-star Jack Whitehall onto The Late Late Show sofa - with embarrassing results for Whitehall.

Where to find Mackenzie Crook's Detectorists in Suffolk

He's back wielding a metal-detector in BBC Four's Bafta-winning sitcom - here's how you can follow in his footsteps.

Dillie Keane on meeting

One of the features of our lives as POTTs (People of the Theatre), is that we get through an enormous number of acquaintances.

Nicholas Hoult interview by creator John Niven

Former child star Nicholas Hoult has become one of Britain's most compelling actors. Following key roles in X-Men and Mad Max, he's now ruthlessly eliminating A&R rivals in Kill Your Friends, an adaptation of John Niven's cult novel about the '90s music industry. We sent the only person for the job, bestselling author John Niven himself, to get into Hoult's head.

Exclusive interview: Nicholas Hoult, Kill Your Friends

In what is arguably the finest performance of his career to date, Nicholas Hoult shines in Owen Harris and John Niven's Kill Your Friends, playing the savage protagonist, Steven Stelfox.